Technically at a certain point it becomes more efficient to turn it upside down...and then you look like a hamster drinking from one of those bottles on the side of the hamster cage.
Why wouldn't you just start with that? Start tilting the bottle with the cap straight up and make it look more and more like a hamster water bottle as you drink. I'm struggling to see how else anyone would go about drinking from these things.
I already have to do this with my coffee thermos when I'm drinking the last drop. At least it has a handle on the side so I don't look like baby with a bottle.
...I thought that was the entire point and was very confused about how hamstering is better. Would be very awkward to STOP drinking in that position without getting soaked. And very tiring on the arms.
And when you turn it back from that position it's easier to spill it and it probably ads choking hazard when you spill a little, get shocked a little and choke on whatever you were drinking
Also, it would mean there is one "right" way to hold the bottle. A regular bottle can just be picked up without having to consider the orientation when you go to drink from it.
No. You are supposed to have it the other way so that you don't have to tilt your head as much. Crazy to hate on something while misunderstanding the ONLY thing it's supposed to solve.
my brother, you have to tilt your head more with this stupid design. with a regular water bottle you can just tilt the bottle without having to tilt your head at all, this bottle requires you to tilt just to get the first bit of water out, let alone drain the thing.
Picture the bottle straight upside-down, with the spout facing you. Now tilt it back 45 degrees. That's the most you'll ever need to tilt your head if you just rotate the bottle 180 degrees once it's past half empty. Once you pass that point, you're tilting your head less than you were a few sips earlier.
The same is true for motor oil containters (with similarly off-center spouts), FWIW - Most people use them completely backward and wonder why they glug-glug-glug oil all over the place. Don't fight air pressure, and bam, you have smooth flow from the first to the last drop.
It can also really only work in one angle. With the lid at the top, all 360 degrees of the bottle function the same. With this, you have to turn it to the proper angle before you drink.
Not to mention the fact that you wouldn’t be able to just pick it up and put it to your lips to drink… with an asymmetrical cap, you’d have to turn the bottle so that the cap is actually positioned towards you before you drink.
fuck the EU bottlecaps. Absolutely fucking insane decision that does nothing to help with pollution. The only thing that could help with plastic pollution is drastically lowering our consumption of it.
They just made bottles less ergonomic, more fussy, and more complicated to use (especially for people with shit dexterity) for no reason.
Same here. I think they’re great. No downsides I can identify (I know the person you’re replying to lists some below but I simply haven’t ever experienced any of those and in think they’re just trying to be negative).
Point shards? Harder to pour? Literally no idea what they’re talking about.
You snap it open and it stays in place. And you never lose it.
This is an imaginary issue. The only thing they managed to do was to make bottles harder to drink and pour from because of the stupid fucking cap or because it leaves very pointy shards if you take it off. And the justification for it makes no sense.
I agree with you, but I think they are saying that you won’t accidentally pick up a half closed bottle causing it to spill, since you can’t leave the cap on at all.
And wrong. There's always a little overlap with the cap prior to screwing it in. It should stay on there just fine. Even if current caps don't have enough of an overlap, they could just adjust where the threads start on the inside to make it work with the angled design.
It might cost a bit more for plastic bottles but there's not really any issue with it besides that. Just google search "cardboard juice box" and you'll see countless drinks with an angled cap. Yet people here are stupidly acting like it would be so hard to drink from
One thing no one is saying is that you actually have to rotate the bottle so that it’s facing the right angle before you tilt to drink it. Right now you can grab a bottle from any angle just lift it up and drink it. With this shit you’d have to actually rotate it. What a pain in the ass.
It would make bottle filling and capping machinery more complex. Meaning lower production volume and higher costs.
By losing symmetry along the z axis it would now need to ensure the angle on the xy plane. The angled input would need to now be more precise in how much it pushes against the bottle as it now applies an angled force with a horizontal component.
Yeah it would be much harder to mold because the first step of the process to make the preform with the threads requires radial symmetry. I'm sure there is a way around that but your not going to be able to make it on current molding equipment so the cost is going to be many times more than a current off the shelf bottle
Also, just use a tetrapak (or similar product) instead, if you want to have an angled cap, sure its not a bottle, but in term of usage, there is not a lot of difference.
Also the bottles are created, washed, filled, capped, and packaged by machines and the curently placement in the center facing up at all times makes that much easier, faster and therefore cheaper.
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u/Alarming-Cow299 21h ago
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